Tag Archives: 'california'
Resurgent Draft: California Fiction
This was a post that started in earnest in November 2005, just when I started to realize that California was not as liberal as many people suggest, and is much more anti-tax than advertised. This post is truly one of those unfinished masterpieces. Unpublished Draft Many people state that California is part of the “left [...]
Duplicity
Duplicity at its finest… Modoc has the highest Republican registration of any county in California, it unfailingly elects anti-tax Republicans to office, and the vote here against last month’s ballot measure that would have raised a variety of taxes was one of the most lopsided in the state. And yet, per capita, Modoc County gets [...]
California Parks, Use Fees, and Cost-Neutrality*
Although the state of California is the seventh- or tenth-largest economy in the world, depending on when and what measure you read, and therefore the most important economy within the United States, and although the federal government has rescued investment banks, insurance companies and car manufacturers, as a result of behavior that all parties have [...]
Absentee
For the first time in my voting life, I will be voting absentee. I do have the option in California to permanently vote absentee, but I have never been an outright supporter, so I rely on the practice on an as-needed basis. In comes the California special election in two weeks, where six highly-contentious measures [...]
Newsom Redux
I shouldn’t have, but I did. I read this article on TechCrunch hyping the Gavin Newsom announcement, in which it concludes that “the question is whether his opponents will be able to effectively use the same tools [Twitter, Facebook] without ringing hollow.” Really, that is the question? The question is not if Newsom can turn [...]
Newsom
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his candidacy for governor with a tweet on Twitter, followed by a blog entry on the Huffington Post. You stay classy, Gavin. Disclaimer: I would vote for Newsom if he were the nominee.
Naked In Berkeley
Berkeley is an interesting place, and I say that from experience. I lived there, albeit briefly, for 16 months while in and immediately after graduate school. If someone asked to describe life in Berkeley, I think this news snippet from this morning sums it up pretty nicely… “A nude woman running in and out of [...]
California Beckons
These “marked days” posts are what we refer to in the industry as fluff posts. Coming soon to a blog near you… the clip show. Today marks the first day of the seventh year of me moving to California to start my new life. It would take me exactly one less day than a full [...]
Golden Gate Redux
I guess I am not the only one… “Nearly 75 percent of the 1,600 respondents are opposed to any suicide barrier being built [on the Golden Gate Bridge] at all.” Some semblance of sanity in an insane world. It continues, it being the world according to reyonthehill… “But of the barrier design options, the net [...]
Golden Gate Jumpers
I am not a proponent of modifying the Golden Gate Bridge to reduce the potential for the landmark to be a location and method for suicide (I think it is a silly idea), but with the five choices offered, I would choose the netting option. It certainly would have the least visual impact on the [...]
A Fitting Memorial
Coming soon to San Francisco… “the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.“
Grass Valley Fire
It smells like one big campfire in the Bay Area; it reminds me of Tahoe actually. The Grass Valley fire is around twenty minutes from our house. We noticed it on Saturday afternoon (when the temperature was over 100 degrees, and the conditions were extremely dry). The resulting smoke makes for unreal sunsets, but that [...]
Morning Snark
Hundreds of same-sex couples were married last night in California, expressing their love amid the new-found freedom reinforced by the California courts. Aside from the bliss that comes with a wedding ceremony, the State of California is on pace to erase its record deficits in two years when the number of divorce filings is expected [...]
Salmon Runs Dry
In local news, it is going to be an interesting summer of cooking in the bay area, because “no commercial or recreational salmon fishing will be allowed off the coast of California and most of Oregon this year.” That’s right, no salmon. I’m a bigger fan of tilapia anyway.
In the News… California.
- This is what life, er, politics, is all about. A new poll in California shows “Hillary Clinton with a very narrow three-percentage point lead over Barack Obama.“ – After watching last night’s GOP debate, you would think that the primary will be a referendum on Reagan’s legacy. By the way, why don’t the democrats [...]
In the News… Late Night Edition.
Kids, do not do this at home; stay in school. – Obama may find enough support in New York to make the state competitive, possibly giving Hillary a run for her money in a state she hoped that she would not have to spend too much money. Hillary losing New York would almost be as [...]
In the News
- The latest issue with same-sex marriage… same-sex divorce. One in every two. – The best new law of the new year: In California, it is now illegal to “smoke with a child under 18 in the car – whether the vehicle is in motion or not.” That is a good first step; now to [...]
In the News
It has been too long. – Tom Tancredo, the most racist of the GOP contenders (and that is saying something), has decided to drop-out of the race. I guess polling at 0.05% is a bit discouraging. – The EPA administrator, which — in the Bush White House — has become something of an impish position, [...]
Morning Politoon
John Sherffius on the state of California… Image: Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index
In the News… Ron Paul Video.
- If the parental-notification for under-18 tanning bill is signed by Schwarzenegger, I’d sell all my stock in tanning salons, if I had any. A silly law, but I can see the point. – Senate Democrats will be considering alternatives in their attempts to end the war (and get GOP support for it). Alternatives, what [...]
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